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Titusville Fire Department debuts hot-car display, highlights child passenger safety outreach
Summary
The Titusville Fire Department showed a visual hot-car temperature display purchased from restricted funds to demonstrate the danger of leaving children unattended in vehicles and outlined upcoming car-seat check events.
Carrie Levesque, a life-safety specialist with the Titusville Fire Department, presented a new “never leave your child alone” hot-car temperature display and described ongoing child passenger-safety work during the city’s special recognitions meeting.
Levesque said the department is the only agency in North Brevard with two certified child passenger safety technicians on staff and that, in 2024, the department performed 24 car-seat checks and distributed 76 reduced-price car seats. She said the department used restricted funds to purchase the visual display, which uses two temperature sensors — one inside a parked vehicle and one outside — to show how interior vehicle temperatures rise relative to ambient conditions.
“The display helps us show families just how dangerous it can be,” Levesque said in the meeting. She told council the department will bring the display to countywide car-seat check events the week of Sept. 21 and plans to place it at daycare centers and elementary-school car loops for education and outreach.
Levesque described Florida as having the second-highest rate of pediatric vehicular heat stroke in the country (as stated in the presentation) and said hot-car child deaths are “100 percent preventable.” Council members thanked the department for the outreach; Member Stoeckle praised the department’s proactive approach and Levesque’s “passion.”
No council action was taken; the presentation was informational and focused on public education and interagency outreach plans.
